# Leontius Pilatus

- id: leontius-pilatus
- name in original script: Leontius Pilatus
- dates: d. c. 1366
- roles: translator, scholar

Calabrian Greek scholar whom Boccaccio housed in Florence so that Homer could be turned into Latin, the first complete crossing of the epics into a Western tongue in the medieval West.

## Crossings

- c. 1360–1362: Iliad into Latin (translator) [attested]
- c. 1360–1362: Odyssey into Latin (translator) [attested]

## Sources

- N. G. Wilson (1992). From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance.